A man was shot and killed Wednesday night near the Occupy Oakland protests. All accounts indicate that the shooting had nothing to do with the protests and indeed was just one of around a hundred murders that occur in Oakland, California each year. Now Oakland Mayor, Jean Quan, folding to pressure from the corporate elite, says she now wants the protesters to leave and that the risks the protests represent are just too great.
The talking heads of FOX News jumped right in step in backing Quan’s assertion that the protests must be stopped, citing as one cause a negative effect the protests are having on local businesses. Tell me this. How many small businesses have been utterly destroyed as a result of the actions of the corporate elite on Wall Street and indeed in Oakland, California?
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